Orientamento informale e biografie femminili nel quartiere Giambellino di Milano

Abstract

Abstract – The contribution aims to analyze what/who orients, on the path to adulthood, young women growing up in territories of urban periphery. Orientation appears today to be located, for all young generations, not so much at school, but rather in the territories of daily life and, for some biographies in particular, still problematically marked by ascribed belongings (class, gender, ethnic-cultural, territorial...). Gender belonging, intertwined with social, ethno-cultural and territorial belonging, was observed with particular attention by a “mixed” group of young women (between 21 and 30 years old) – residents of Giambellino in Milan and students in Educational Sciences, at the University of Milan-Bicocca – thanks to a didactic-educational opportunity of reading and pedagogical analysis of the territorial dimension. Women's individual biographies were, there, reconnected to collective, territorial and social contexts. Starting, then, from the common questioning of the contemporary location of each in a body, in a gender and in a territory, it was observed how much gender, intertwined with other ascribed belongings, still marks and orients urban “choices”, paths and lives, which in Giambellino appear characterized by plural forms of subalternity, inequality and violence.